Chapter 42: The Well of the Heavens (Part II)
The mountains were rumbling, and the smoke and dust rose to the world a thousand kilometers away, overshadowing the smoke of the empty islands higher up. The people above were frightened, so they looked up at the land below, and saw a new land chasing the smoke and dust that had taken the first step and slowly rising into the dark and dreary blue darkness.
This phenomenon has been recorded for a long time, because whenever the earth raises hundreds of meters of smoke and dust, drilling into the comfrey often finds some natural people. Children of the past would have wandered in the grass with excitement, but now people with knowledge know that this is not a godsend, but a shell of a man in the stone that has been thrown from the rock by the earth.
"Hide in the house!"
The guards sounded the alarm, and the people working on the ground shouted back and forth. So they hurriedly took up their farm implements and descended to their dwellings in the ground, where they prepared to see the light of day for a while.
The rise of a new large land, according to the previous experience of the Qiongqiu people, firstly, the smoke and dust are harmful, and secondly, the trajectory of the nearby land will be slightly changed by the addition of new members, and it will inevitably have several small shocks.
However, the land and the land are disturbed by some kind of disturbed balance and do not collide together, so the shock is just a shock, and it is not dangerous.
Dangerous...... Only a nascent sky island with a sudden change in gravity mode in a short period of time.
In the history of Qiongqiu, only the Shizhong people lived on the surface of the earth's mother shell.
The smoke from the sky was like clouds about to fall to the ground, and at the edge of the well, even if it was the sun, it was gray.
The people in the stone have long since surged to the ground and gathered into large and small groups. The ground was still shaking, and they couldn't stay on the ground for long, setting up makeshift cables and preparing to move to the land away from the smoke and disturbances.
As for those who had already had a mission, they did not interfere with their actions, but waited for a while.
"Why wait?"
A sturdy man in the stone was puzzled.
The leader said lightly:
"Because we're going to wait for these people to get out of the house a little more, and they're going to get in the way of our movement. Since they don't conflict with us, we can wait a while. The appearance of the Black Elder Dragon was obvious, and it was still inside. He was so badly wounded that he couldn't get out. ”
On the other hand...... If there are many people alive in the field, in addition to the conflict, some team members may choose to help their compatriots, thus delaying the opportunity. But if people die, neither conflict nor help will disappear.
The leader had no intention of breaking through this cruelty.
But they didn't do nothing, they did propaganda.
The people in the stone communicated with each other, and some of the people in the stone who didn't know that there was a choice learned about the thoughts of this group of people in the stone who chose the rebels, and secretly made contact with them and integrated into their team. When there were scattered people on the surface, the leader and his staff estimated the number of people still in the field, and thought that all the living should be gone, and the dead should also be gone, so they sent the sentry to blow the order.
Immediately, a team brought in a huge box. The captain talked about the height of the ruler next to him, and they followed the captain's command, placed the position of the box on the ground, and continuously corrected the level height until the position was appropriate, and removed the outer cover, leaving only the bottom plate of the box.
At first glance, the inside of the box appears to be empty, with only a square staircase drawn on a wood-like baseplate. The staircase is beautifully painted, and it looks like it leads to the depths of the earth that are about to close.
"Don't squeeze, go down in an orderly manner."
Said the captain.
The rebellious Men of the Stone lined up in two rows, armed with weapons and multi-purpose shovels, poured into the carved hole.
At the same time, the elder and his men had completely abandoned the protection of the Black Elder Dragon. They all withdrew to other air and land areas. This empty land is separated from the New World by several lands, and there are backup buildings of the Stone Humans underground, as well as filtration devices that can block the dust and sand in the sky.
A group of people had begun to arrange suspension cables here before, leading the orderly evacuation of the Shizhong people. The way to evacuate is mainly to rely on the gravity signal released by the strange object "Shangzhang" to directly ask everyone to slide along the suspension cable. The inhabitants of Qiongqiu are mostly equipped with comfrey gloves, which can protect their hands well in such situations.
Withered pine is a young man, and he is naturally sent to work. He hummed a small song of the people in the stone, and after checking the lower point of another suspension cable, he was stunned in place. After a few moments, he piled the dirt with both hands onto the tie point, and then looked up at the rising land.
The smoke was so thick that the land behind the smoke and dust could not be seen clearly, and only the rebellious people in the stone could be seen disappearing one by one under the surface. I'm afraid this is just as the elder Chao said, it is against the Black Elder Dragon.
He hurriedly trotted to Chao Lao's side, first informed Chao Lao of what he had seen and heard, and then puzzled:
"This formation is an important place for us to recover. The well complex is our most important base. Is it really okay for us to evacuate like this now? Teacher, and the Speaker......"
He pondered for a moment.
The Black Elder Dragon previously announced that he had faked his death, and his influence among the people was limited.
"I think in the council, the speaker's disciples and former friends of the speaker will have a lot of complaints about this."
He finished, but found that Chao Lao didn't seem to hear him at all.
The old man's face was in a trance, and his heart was vaguely uneasy.
His gaze was on land, on the well, and on the air. The green darkness is deep and cannot see its end, hanging in the sky, and the land is its shelter.
The well complex was a building built around the well, so the ascent of the new land did not completely get rid of the well. So far, it has been going up along the well.
"So, will it stay somewhere, or will it continue to move up to the top?" This is the puzzle of Qiongqiu's physics. Generally speaking, the land does not rise straight, but under many tractions, it takes a parabola to find its place between the masses of land. But today, Shinlu is held in a single orbit by a hard well......
"Down, stop, up, vibrate, swing? Something is wrong, this is really wrong. ”
The old man relied on his intuition and immediately decided:
"Dry pine, arrange a messenger team."
Dry pine had originally arranged, hoping to communicate with the hanging garden, and had spoken to a few people before, and when he heard the request of the old man, he immediately called all the candidates.
"The people are already together."
Chao Lao has not yet said his arrangement. The dead pine saw the old man standing under the sky where the hanging garden was located, looking at the upper floor, and observed the fluttering wings on the horizon.
"Is this a team coming down from the Hanging Garden? Whose team is it? Elder Hei's descendant, or President Mu's, Bi Luo's, or an ordinary councilor? ”
After thinking for a moment, he personally led the team, pulled the hook and claw, and climbed several levels of air and land together, protruding from the cloud-like smoke and dust, and walked straight to an empty land.
The sun shone on the dragons, and the shadow of the dragon fell on them without reservation.
When he opened his eyes, the shadow standing in the air was not a dragon battleship, nor a secondary dragon battleship, but an ordinary alien dragon. In other words, it is not the ranks of the National Assembly. The dragon had already noticed them, and he stood silently and waited, waiting until the dragon's claws made a noise against the earth, and the eyes of the monsters that fell on the earth and rocks fell on them.
The allosaurs showed their teeth and claws, but the elders did not take them seriously. He only looked up at the sunlight and saw a woman he knew standing on the dragon's body.
As soon as the wind blew, the man's long-uncut hair fluttered in the air. She had a pair of gray eyes, and when she looked at Chao Lao, Chao Lao's brain was dizzy, and she felt that she had been targeted by the birds of prey in the sky.
She said unhurriedly:
"See you again."
Towards the old man with two dim eyes:
"Xuanniao."
A legend at the bottom of the memory of the people in the stone.
The black smoke had reached the end of its power, and could no longer continue upward, but had faded into clouds in the air. But the islands that rise up with the wells make more rumbling sounds.
In the time that the elder and the dragon have met, the rebellious people of the stone have invaded the extreme depths of the underground well complex. More than half of the well complex has risen with the land, but it occupies only a small part of the land, and no corner of the rock has been squeezed by the rock formations. There are more or less collapses everywhere. The roads that people once took for granted are no longer available, and the roads in every area need to be reopened.
This terrible inner nature brought trouble to the people in the stone, and also brought obstacles to Zaiyi.
Zai Yan never dreamed that the combat equipment he changed into would eventually become digging equipment. Fortunately, the combat suit, which consists of sharp objects, drills, axes and chisels, and more powerful manipulators, is superior to the dexterous suit of the past in the sense of violent digging.
A little earlier, the cogwheel man had opened a small hole from the surface of the land to the interior of the land. Through this opening, he reached a narrow triangular space.
The triangular space was not originally a triangular space, but a marginal room of the well complex, and may have been the dwelling of a man in stone, with some furniture made of other kinds of stone. The corner where Zai Yi stayed when he was digging outside may have been the other half of the room.
After the earth cracked, the well complex was torn into a large piece of flying and a small piece left on the ground. The room was right in the crack. The furniture that originally existed lost its original appearance with the tilt of heaven and earth, and was squeezed into the rubble and rubble. As for the important things, they were hastily taken away by the people who originally lived in them.
Zai Yan can't stand up straight here, so he can only move forward with his waist bent. He quickly figured out where it was supposed to be.
The wall collapsed with rock formations, and the door was crushed by the wall on the other side.
As far as the eye can see, everything is in ruins.
He tapped on the rocks, not sure if there was room behind the ruins. This makes things difficult and may require him to dig a long way himself. He first felt out the shock stone and knocked it a few times. The seismic feedback is still chaotic.
Zai asked the pinion machine to help him put away the rock, calmly extended the manipulator, turned one hand into a drill bit, and began to drill the cracks in the rock, and when he drilled a small piece, he smelled the turbid air on the other side. This is a good sign that there is also a lot of space over there, rather than solid stone on stone.
Zai Yan stiffened out a small hole that could accommodate people. Leaning on the glass eye, he could see through the darkness. What used to be a spacious corridor has now become a narrow gap.
The crevices are littered with rubble, but in the end it's a little better than the dense rock formations.
He walked over and leaned out of the way, only to hear a sharp bang behind him. He turned to see that the triangular space he had just been in had also collapsed, the rock formations had closed, and he had to dig again if he wanted to get out.
"Difficult task."
The lion said.
The pinion machine squeaked.
The lion was undaunted, he was calm, and he knew that he must now rush to the young man's side to ensure his survival. He slumped forward in the darkness, the sounds around him gradually dissolving into a thousand wisps of the earth and all other things.
The corridor is not long, and there are rocks in the middle. By the time he reached the end, he had found several traces of the life of the stone people, some of which had been soiled. Most of the pieces of paper are notices, and there are also books from the Shizhong family.
He read a little and got an interesting message:
"The later group of Hanging Gardeners lived in a place called the 'Central Operating Room'." And the notice is addressed to the kitchen. However, it is unknown what the central operating room is and where it is.
Zai Yan was not annoyed, continued to explore, and continued to dig towards the center.
The center is not the center of the land, but the center of the well complex, which he guessed.
As a result, he went around and around, and in the crevices of the rock formations, he heard human voices.
The lion immediately turned off the glow of the glass eye, and the pinion stopped flapping its wings, and the two guys hid behind the rock, silently waiting for the figure.
There were two figures, coming in the direction they were. They wore helmets with glowing transistors that illuminated the depths of the ruins.
A trembling stone fell on the shoulder of a man, and a man said:
"Are we really going to keep looking for that dragon in such a dangerous place?"
Another person said:
"This Speaker Dragon's body is huge, it should be hidden somewhere, look carefully, you will definitely be able to find it."
Zai Yan realized that the speaker they were talking about was the Black Elder Dragon, and this group of people had come to find the Black Elder Dragon. This was in line with his suspicions, and the Underground Well complex was also involved in the civil war of the Heterosaurus Dynasty.
The identities of these two people are also suspicious, the latter seems to have personally experienced the Buzi rebellion, and the former seems to only know a rough idea.
They have multipurpose shovels in their hands, and there are also transistor lights on the shovels. They were also knocking on the rock formations with shovels, as if to test the sound of each rock formation.
Zaiyi can't see their bodies, but he can always see their shadows.
The light fell onto a sloping rock wall, and the two figures distorted to the point of no return, as four transistors were fired from the rock wall, on the ground, and on the sky guard. The calculations of the carriers can easily reduce this optical distortion to their true position.
While knocking, they talked about Bu Zi again.
"Bu Zi is in a good situation now, more and more alien dragons who have hidden or escaped have chosen to join the team called by the two elder dragons, as long as we can make some achievements, the strength of the hanging garden will be damaged......
By the time they said this, they were very close to carrying the stalk.
It was at this time that the Zans broke out.
His chest was like the crazy Jing Yujiu, stretching out more than a dozen slender and slender mechanical arms, arranged in two rows, distributed on the left and right chests, like the eight legs of a spider open behind the person, under the projection of the light source, reflecting a terrifying and grotesque shadow.
"What is it?"
Those who participated in the Buzi War had serious training, and he immediately reflected:
"The same kind? Don't worry...... We are"
Before he could finish speaking, the pinion machine slammed into his head, and a small needle-like thorn protruded from the front of the cogwheel machine, smeared with the biological stinger refined by the cogwheel man, piercing the skin on the back of the man's neck and causing him to pass out.
The other person was instantly restrained by the load.
The joints of more than a dozen mechanical arms were extremely numerous, soft as filaments, and they wrapped directly around the person's body, wrapping around the person's hands, feet, neck, chest, abdomen and other major parts, and controlling the person in front of him as if he were staring at the cross.
The head of the stalkling lion rested next to his head.
The man was stunned, and his mouth was almost already shouting:
"A monster with a lion's head and a spider body!"
But the stretched manipulator covered his mouth. The pinion machine was replaced with a toxin and injected with the truism agent used by the cogwheel man for torture.
Zai Yi picked out that this person had not been on the Buzi battlefield, so it was very likely that he would have lived in the underground well complex for a long time. He asked:
"Where is the central operating room? The Black Elder Dragon was originally in the central operating room. ”
The man spoke vaguely.
But the well complex had collapsed, and what he said about making a few bends and passing through some room had become obscure. After a few more questions, and after barely ascertaining an approximate location, he knocked the man unconscious, then withdrew all his stretched mechanical hands, stripped off his coat, changed into his protective suit, which was too bulky to use, and then hit the road with the pinion.
He made a detour, and soon found that the number of people in the stone who had gone down into the bottom was beyond his imagination, there might be hundreds of people, divided into dozens of teams.
The main team is organizing a rigorous excavation that seems to be digging a large hole around the well, so that it does not look like they are looking for people, but rather like they are building some kind of house.
Zaiyi didn't want to make contact with them, but they cared about everything that still existed underground.
The influx of stone people restricts the movement of the canopy. The sounds around made it extremely difficult for Zai Yan to walk. At the most dangerous, he silently passed through the middle of the two teams in the shadows. Both teams were only a few meters away from him, and they could spot the canopy by turning their transistor lights.
But as he made a small hole in the wall and was about to pass through, the rock formation collapsed. The fall of the rock caused more than a dozen lights to shine in all directions in a panic, and one of them fell on him.
At that time, Zaiyi was dressed in the clothes of the man in the stone, and they could only see a familiar back, and someone shouted:
"Come here, be careful!"
Because of the obstruction of their clothes, they didn't realize that this was an anomaly outside of the personal department.
Zai Fei also drilled into the hole.
But his presence had been spread by the Stone Humans, and the leader pondered for a moment, then ordered his men to split up a team to find Zai's whereabouts.
They pulled out an animal domesticated by an allosaurus. The animal resembled a sheep, with eyes on its belly and a nautilus-like horn on its head, and fragments of glowing stones embedded in its body. Qiongqiu usually calls this animal a sting.
The beast took a few light steps, crossed the hole, and led the people in the stone all the way forward, and was forced to knock through the stone wall continuously, hindering the whereabouts of the people behind, and took a dangerous road, turned left and right, and after breaking through a thin stone wall, it actually approached the location of the well.
The well complex is built around the well, and the place where the well is located naturally has rooms in the well complex. The room is now crumbling, but there is still a large gap for people to pass through.
So, he saw something that couldn't tell if it was a rock or some kind of metal creation. It runs through this new land, and is tightly wrapped around it. There was a loud roar of friction. And under the crust that is constantly peeling off the surface, a little fluorescence is exposed.
"Qualitative ......"
Zai Yan touched it in confusion.
The fluorescent light that touched the animal skin suddenly flew and disappeared into the boundless darkness.
The well is slender, and its diameter may be only a few tens of meters compared to its height that reaches into the sky. The existence of this kind of thing made Zai Yan in a trance for a while.
He felt nervous, and the gears spun faster, only then the light steps of the Beast came from behind him.
The lion's heart for his companion did not stop, but quickly turned around, went around the well, and disappeared into the vast darkness of the depths.
The team of the people in the stone did not chase deeply, the air inside was too turbid, and the broken reagent emitted a smell that normal people would feel nauseous.
After a moment's discussion, they stayed at the edge of the well, looked in awe at the structure that had been erected for an unknown amount of time, and stepped back.
And here, it is infinitely close to the location of the central operating room.
It was at that time that Zai Yan found the young man.
The so-called central operating room is long gone, and the place where the young man is located has been completely closed by the rocks, leaving only some traces of suggestive writing on the ruins.
Therefore, at that time, it was assumed that it would be difficult to enter the central operating room without digging tens of meters and digging through half of the central operating room. The sound is inaudible, and the earthquake stone disappears under the vast stone, and it cannot be found.
The air smelled cloudy, and the depths of the stone were stuffy and hot.
But that's when the pinion machine chirped. When it was on the Dead or Alive number, it played with Mr. Dandan, and was particularly sensitive to the smell of the hard-boiled egg.
It lay on the stone and dug into it.
At that time, Zai was in a narrow gap. In order to have enough time, he once again broke down the way he had come. Then he propped up his changed hands and drilled in the direction indicated by the pinion machine.
As he drilled, the newborn world made a rumbling sound.
There were stones, grass roots, large patches of solidified but flesh that looked like they were still alive, transistors, countless transistors reflecting the light of the glass eyes, deformed and colorful, and the notebook, which had been crushed by the rocks into paper sauce balls, and water, which flowed along the cracks in the rocks.
The water smelled of blood.
All the solids he threw behind him.
The glass eyes shone brightly, and he heard a tired and hoarse greeting:
"Is it Zaiyi?"
Zai Yi came to the spirit, and he said:
"It's me."
In the last layer of rock, a bruised hand stretched out. The lion brushed aside the last stone chips, and his friend, his leader, was inside.
The light of the glass eye illuminated the young man's face tormented by pain.
The tightly locked eyebrows made the young man look particularly serious and mighty, and his dark eyes glowed with pathos and gloom. But his physical condition was unexpectedly much better than Zaiyi had imagined.
There are many scars on the naked body, but these scars become scars, that is, they are healed. Zai thought to himself that this should be the function of the so-called immortal flesh. Only the hands were still bloody, and the scales of the heretics that had grown out glowed a dark red. The blood left a mark on the ground, mixed with the water between the crevices. Zai Yan realized that this was the young man who had been digging out with his own hands.
He gave the young man the comfrey he had brought with him, and called the pinion machine to help him untie his hides. The skins of the Cogwheel People are much stronger than the clothes of ordinary flesh people.
He thought for a moment and asked:
"What about the kiwi?"
The young man said:
"It's dead."
He exhaled heavily, and said with mixed feelings:
"It's been with us for so long, and it's finally getting what it wants."
The young man's head was numb, and he didn't say a word, didn't say anything, but took the lion's skin and put it on silently. The young man in the lion's skin looked like a terrible beast in the dark. Under the thick eyebrows, there are majestic edges and corners of the face.
"What's next?"
Zai asked.
"No change."
"What?"
Zai Yi didn't understand.
He grabbed a rock and threw it into the gap behind him. Subsequently, he said:
"Get out of here."
Then he went to the ends of the earth.
It is the whole of the vast world of that common dream.